Could be snakes are his thing, his phobia.  Something like that would be over lthe line.

It's amazing that on Stargate SG-1 he was the most clean cut, squeaky clean, never got his hands dirty character.  Never suspected Pope was in there.

Knock, Knock - that's a joke.  This is no joke:

The movie is better than the book, if only because they cut so much out.  Several of the main characters got entire biographies.  We didn't need the Mormon senators entire life story to get the point.  And apparently Cooley was a vicious old racist because he got rejected by a woman when he was young.  Cutting all…

Not only was the president's wife in NYC, so were the wife and kids of the guy he sent to do the job.

Gabriel Over The White House is a real movie.  And like all real movies they are making a crappy remake so they can bury the better original.  In other Hollywood news - in a real burst of inspiration they are remaking the first Terminator movie.

The real problem with bad-ass movie presidents is just that - they are bad-asses.  So why is everyone surprised when Harrison Ford triumphs?  Or that Bill Pullman leads the world to an American led victory over aliens?  When you set up a situation  where the guy is a green-beret, fighter pilot with the Medal of Honor…

My point exactly.  No matter how stupid, dangerous and irrational Homer Simpson is, everyone is his side.  It's the classic example of this trope.

If only.

Followed by the great Richard Pryor line: "Oh, we'll get past the cops.  I just hope we don't see no Muslims!"

Worse yet - television.  I grew up watching Ernest Borgnine in McHale's Navy and Shirley Booth in Hazel.  Only later did I find out they were real actors and had won Oscars.

Every time I see an interview where people say how great it was to work with the other guys I swear I can hear their teeth grinding.  But they can only stop saying in when someone really implodes, like Charlie Sheen.  Even then they can't say he was an asshole, just that they hope his rehab goes well.

But in this one the uptight officer learns a valuable lesson about loosening up and getting funky (see picture above) while the slob cop learns absolutely nothing about the value of doing things right.

For as long as I can remember there has been a particular character in movies that I have hated - the "free spirit".  When they need a car, they take yours.  When they are done with it, they roll it down a hill into a river.  And if you are bothered by that it's because you're just hung up on material things, man. …

I got talked into watching Identity Thief and lasted about 15 minutes.  It will be a long time before I watch another Melissa McCarthy "comedy".  other than Mike and Molly but that's okay and only 22 minutes.

Thank you for the macaroons comment! I spent tha whole time thinking "Aren't macaroons ….?"  According to Wikipedia, the US is about the only place we think macaroons are dense coconut cookies.  What Philistines we are.

One of my favorites and one of the greatest SciFi writers ever.  I can't believe his first published story was "Born of  Man and Woman".  You wouldn't think you could go up from there but he did.  Just reading the list of his work is stunning.  RIP, what a loss.

"Did you say you were bigger than Jesus?"
"It was the title of our second album."

"Oh, I know this story! The year was nineteen-ought-six. The President is the divine Miss Sarah Bernhardt. And all over America, people were doin' a dance called the "Funky Grandpa!"  Oh, I'm ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"

There was a bar in NYC where it was Christmas every single day of the year.  I'd walk by and think the bartenders must be trying to hang themselves by the end of every shift.